Baugh is an experienced psychiatric administrative professional who
previously served as the Administrator of Psychiatry at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Psychiatric Medicine. In that role,
she is responsible for the Center’s overall administration as well as for
the planning and implementation of the hospital’s psychiatric services
strategic plan.
Prior to assuming her current responsibilities at UAB, she was Director
of Psychiatry and Administrative Director of Psychiatry at Brookwood Medical
Center in Birmingham, the state’s largest hospital-based program. At
Brookwood she worked to develop and implement the first hospital-based
psychiatric rapid response team.
She was also Director of Dual Diagnosis and Primary Counselor at
Brookwood and worked as a social worker at Birmingham’s St. Vincent’s
Hospice Program, UAB Drug Free Program and UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
Baugh was chairperson of the Alabama Hospital Association’s Psychiatric
Constituency and in 2007 was appointed by the state commissioner of mental
health to work on a state board task force to help resolve overcrowding in
state hospitals. She is also a member of the Governor’s State Mental Health
Board of Trustees.
She is a graduate of Birmingham Southern College majoring in Political
Science and Sociology and received a Master of Social Work Degree from the
University of Alabama.
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